That’s right, people. Barack Obama’s web team doesn’t just *use* open-source tools — Drupal in this case — they commit code and release modules to the community. Three of ‘em.
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iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned
Apr 21, ’10
6:33 AM
A design firm that will be familiar if you’ve followed discussions about online news design over the past few years recently shared their updated mockups for a redesign of Facebook. And they’re pretty.
Riders on the Storm
Apr 20, ’10
10:38 AM
David Brooks on how recent Internet use research continues to dismantle Cass Sunstein’s original “Daily Me” thesis.
Collaboration Deepens at Logan Symposium on Investigative Journalism
Apr 19, ’10
4:31 PM
Chris O’Brien shares notes on a panel including California Watch, NPR, ProPublica, and more news organizations heavily engaged in collaborative reporting.
Collaboration Deepens at Logan Symposium on Investigative Journalism
Useless Flier
Apr 15, ’10
8:53 AM
Pointless reflexive public art. Read the whole post and you’ll trace the line where a flier spawns a Tumblr post spawns a Tumblr. Two reblogs later I find it in Reader, dig back to the original, and share it here.
Mark Fiore can win a Pulitzer Prize, but he can’t get his iPhone cartoon app past Apple’s satire police
Apr 15, ’10
6:39 AM
Awkward, isn’t it, Apple? To censor the App Store, keeping it free from the offensive nature of these Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoons?
Stack Exchange 2.0
Apr 14, ’10
11:19 AM
I’m violently intrigued and interested, as the Stack Overflow team takes their white-label version *free*, but moderates new networks based on their capacity to succeed.
When You’re Strange: A Film About The Doors
Apr 9, ’10
6:23 AM
A chance visit to the Village Voice brings me news of this Johnny Depp-narrated Doors documentary by Tom DeCillo.
A canonical reading list for the future of news
Apr 9, ’10
6:03 AM
Daniel Bachhuber plays the ‘take the pulse’ card and compiles a list of 13 pieces of essential reading. Plus one tweet that leads through @chanders to the best takedown of the Wikileaks video I’ve seen yet.